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We explored the composition dependence of a rather comprehensive set of properties of liquid water-ethanol mixtures by using the isobaric-isothermal molecular dynamics computer simulations. The united atom non-polarizable model from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-02 D. Benavides Bautista , M. Aguilar , O. Pizio

Water shows numerous thermodynamic, dynamic, and structural anomalies. Recent experiments [Eichler et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 134101 (2025)], based on measurements of shear and bulk viscosities of liquid water up to 1.6 GPa, have reported…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-27 José Martín-Roca , Alberto Zaragoza , Frédéric Caupin , Chantal Valeriani

Motivated by the very low diffusivity recently found in ab initio simulations of liquid water, we have studied its dependence with temperature, system size, and duration of the simulations. We use ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fernandez-Serra , Emilio Artacho

Including the effect of thermal fluctuations in traditional computational fluid dynamics requires developing numerical techniques for solving the stochastic partial differential equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics. These Langevin…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Delong , B. E. Griffith , E. Vanden-Eijnden , A. Donev

Because most chemical or biological experiments are performed under conditions of controlled pressure and temperature, it is important to simulate the isobaric-isothermal ensemble at the atomic level to reveal the microscopic mechanism. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-14 Weihao Liang , Sihan Wang , Cong Wang , Weizhou Wang , Xinchen She , Chongbin Wang , Jiushu Shao , Jian Liu

The collective dynamics in liquid water is an active research topic experimentally, theoretically and via simulations. Here, ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are reported in heavy and ordinary water at temperature 323.15 K, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-24 T. Bryk , A. P. Seitsonen

Earlier we showed that in the molecular dynamics simulation of a rigid model of water it is necessary to use an integration time-step $\delta t \leq 0.5$ fs to ensure equipartition between translational and rotational modes. Here we extend…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 Dilipkumar N. Asthagiri , Arjun Valiya Parambathu , Thomas L. Beck

We examine the formulation and numerical treatment of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and momentum-conserving molecular dynamics. We show that it is possible to improve both the accuracy and the stability of DPD by employing a pairwise…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Benedict Leimkuhler , Xiaocheng Shang

Molecules like water have vibrational modes with a zero-point energy well above room temperature. As a consequence, classical molecular dynamics simulations of their liquids largely underestimate the energy of modes with a higher zero-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-08 Sriram Ganeshan , Rafael Ramírez , M. V. Fernández-Serra

In particle-based computer simulations of polydisperse glassforming systems, the particle diameters $\sigma = \sigma_1, \dots, \sigma_N$ of a system with $N$ particles are chosen with the intention to approximate a desired distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-14 Niklas Küchler , Jürgen Horbach

Translational diffusion coefficients are routinely estimated from molecular dynamics simulations. Linear fits to mean squared displacement (MSD) curves have become the de facto standard, from simple liquids to complex biomacromolecules.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 Jakob Tómas Bullerjahn , Sören von Bülow , Gerhard Hummer

We perform molecular dynamics simulations of 512 water-like molecules that interact via the TIP5P potential and are confined between two smooth hydrophobic plates that are separated by 1.10 nm. We find that the anomalous thermodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pradeep Kumar , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Francis W. Starr , Nicolas Giovambattista , H. Eugene Stanley

The static and dynamical properties of heavy water have been studied at ambient conditions with extensive Car-Parrinello molecular-dynamics simulations in the canonical ensemble, with temperatures ranging between 325 K and 400 K.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H-L. Sit , Nicola Marzari

A computer adapted theory for self-consistent calculations of the wavevector- and frequency-dependent dielectric constant for interaction site models of polar systems is proposed. A longitudinal component of the dielectric constant is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Igor P. Omelyan

In this paper we study the numerical error arising in the space-time approximation of unsteady generalized Newtonian fluids which possess a stress-tensor with $(p,\delta)$-structure. A semi-implicit time-discretization scheme coupled with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Luigi C. Berselli , Lars Diening , Michael Ruzicka

The authors present a new molecular dynamics algorithm for sampling the isothermal-isobaric ensemble. In this approach the velocities of all particles and volume degrees of freedom are rescaled by a properly chosen random factor. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-10 Giovanni Bussi , Tatyana Zykova-Timan , Michele Parrinello

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used to describe dynamical systems in science, but identifying parameters that explain experimental measurements is challenging. In particular, although ODEs are differentiable and would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jonas Beck , Nathanael Bosch , Michael Deistler , Kyra L. Kadhim , Jakob H. Macke , Philipp Hennig , Philipp Berens

Rigorous assessment of uncertainty is crucial to the utility of DNS results. Uncertainties in the computed statistics arise from two sources: finite statistical sampling and the discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations. Due to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Todd A. Oliver , Nicholas Malaya , Rhys Ulerich , Robert D. Moser

Analyzing and controlling system entropy is a powerful tool for regulating predictability of control systems. Applications benefiting from such approaches range from reinforcement learning and data security to human-robot collaboration. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Menno van Zutphen , Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Duarte J. Antunes

We study numerical methods for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), which is a system of stochastic differential equations and a popular stochastic momentum-conserving thermostat for simulating complex hydrodynamic behavior at mesoscales.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Xiaocheng Shang